A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.